Upon completion of their course study, it is expected that students will be able to...

• Recognize that art styles reflect a culture or time in history.
• Express themselves visually by using skills in many mediums.
• Write or verbalize using art vocabulary.
• Recognize and apply art elements and principles in theirs and others' work.
• Think in a creative, artistic way.
• Mix colors and use them successfully.
• Demonstrate skills in drawing and seeing.
• Understand the ways in which art is interdisciplinary.

At White Brook, general music and band programs focus their course of study around the following central themes over a four-year cycle.

• The ways in which artists communicate ideas and/or tell stories through their work.
• The art of illustrators (ex. Eric Carle)
• Among the artists studied are Turner, Haring, Kahlo, Ringgold, Dali and Rockwell.
• Projects include the illustration of a story or poem, a self-portrait in symbols and individual assignments in elements and principles. Students also complete a drawing to illustrate the mood of a piece of music.

• Early to contemporary Native American art is observed and students complete the following projects: the design of a Native American blanket and a pastel drawing of a desert or the Grand Canyon.
• The "why's, what's and how's" of portraiture through the ages. Students create a self-portrait.
• A landscape in the style of the Hudson River Painters.
• Products to demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the works of Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keefe and Abstract Impressionism.

Year 3 - Cycle C - European Art

• The focus of this cycle is on the great art and artists of the Medieval Period, the Renaissance and Impressionism.

• Themes include animals (faces and figures), Nature, Textiles and tiles
• The art of the following cultures is introduced: China, Japan, Africa, Islam, Mexico. and India.
• Projects include Sumi brush painting, writing and illustrating a haiku, painting in Japanese style, aboriginal animal drawings in oil pastels, mask making in copper foil, Islamic tile design, mud cloth and Mexican paper mache' animals.

Journal writing, product, verbal assessments. A rubric is used for major assignments.